张纯如英语PPT.pptx

Iris Chang;Iris Shun-Ru Chang was born on March 28, 1968 in New Jersey. She was an American historian and journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre(南京大屠杀), The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004.;Main works; Into this maelstrom(大漩涡) of nationalist pride and pain stepped, in the 1990s, a 29-year-old Chinese-American.; For two years she did research in China, rifling(快速搜索) the archives and talking to survivors. She pinned a map of Nanking on her study wall, covering it with pictures of tortures(折磨)and killing in the places where they had happened. Some civilians had been mutilated(毁坏) with broken beer bottles, some impaled(刺穿) on bamboo. Women‘s breasts had been cut off and nailed to walls. The Japanese killed so many men that they found it quicker to bayonet(用刺刀刺) them as they stood in a line, rather than behead them.; As the grim(残忍的) stories accumulated, Miss Chang lost weight and broke down. She went on, defying(藐视) exhaustion. When her book on Nanking came out, in 1997, she spent a year on the road talking about it. More than half a million copies were sold in America alone; she became a celebrity, leaving audiences astonished that this pretty, smiling girl could tell such tales of horror. But she did not care, she said, whether she made a cent from it. All she wanted to do was get the story out.;2004 November 9th, Chang committed suicide with a pistol (手枪) in her car when she was only 36. It’s reported that she died of tristimania(抑郁症) as the result of the heavy loads of work and tiredness of seeing the vice(堕落) and rudeness of human.;Iris Chang statue(雕像) at the Memorial Hall of the Nanking Massacre in Nanking.;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ------Santayana The Life of Reason